These 10 States Collect the Most in STR Taxes

I have covered short-term rentals at Skift for a little over six months now, and in reporting on regulations around the world with its when will the hammer come down conjecture, I figured my time would be well-spent trying to understand some of the incentive behind the intention to regulate.

And so, I did what most journalists do — follow the money — and reached out to Nick Del Pego, CEO of Deckard Technologies to get some tax data. San Diego-based Deckard Technologies partners with local communities and counties to provide them with data and analytics to identify and tax short-term rentals.

Below are the company’s estimates on total residential short-term rental tax revenue for counties in the U.S. with major short-term rental markets, including estimates on collectable residential short-term rental taxes.

Computing this data did not come without challenges: In some jurisdictions it’s fairly straightforward as there is one tax